“We the undersigned have come together because we feel that the time has come to tell the truth about life inside the groups who recruit our young people to join their violent ranks.

With hundreds abandoning them every day, we now know what life was really like inside, what truths were kept from those who joined, what freedoms were removed, how thought was punished, dreams were crushed and hope abandoned.

We welcome every survivor into our family, where we work every day to get them back into their communities and back into the support of their families, where hope can return and life begin again.

We praise those brave survivors who have chosen to tell their tale.

We now know how life outside, no matter how tough, beats death inside.

 Our pledge is to work together until no one person falls into their trap ever again.

As every parent, friend, brother or sister knows, if it’s too good to be true, it usually is.

It’s time to tell the truth.”